Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org> Thu, 21 November 2013 21:55 UTC

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On 11/21/2013 03:52 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 21 November 2013 12:48, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> <basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:
>> Has anyone actually objected to H.261 being the one MTI codec [...] ?
> 
> More than one person has already.
> 
> And I find the argument raised quite compelling.  It's hard to justify
> spending valuable time and resources on implementing something that
> crappy.
> 

(another case of replying to the person and not the list)

It's no more crappy than having G.711 as a fallback audio codec for
legacy purposes, which we've already done for rtcweb audio.  I realize
that it's not the same thing, but no other alternative codec has been
presented that satisfies the blocking issues for choosing either VP8 or
H.264 as MTI, namely, the IPR- or possibly-IPR-related issues.

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